And what of that?
If the one is older than the others, has come into being a longer
time than the others.
Yes.
But consider again; if we add equal time to a greater and a less
time, will the greater differ from the less time by an equal or by a
smaller portion than before?
By a smaller portion.
Then the difference between the age of the one and the age of the
others will not be afterwards so great as at first, but if an equal
time be added to both of them they will differ less and less in age?
Yes.
And that which differs in age from some other less than formerly,
from being older will become younger in relation to that other than
which it was older?
Yes, younger.
And if the one becomes younger the others aforesaid will become
older than they were before, in relation to the one.
Certainly.
Then that which had become younger becomes older relatively to
that which previously had become and was older; it never really is
older, but is always becoming, for the one is always growing on the
side of youth and the other on the side of age. And in like manner the
older is always in process of becoming younger than the younger; for
as they are always going in opposite directions they become in ways
the opposite to one another, the younger older than the older and
the older younger than the younger. They cannot, however have
become; for if they had already become they would be and not merely
become.
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